Welcome to the ESI
The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) is a programme-oriented research institute for mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. Since its opening in 1993 it has been the mission of the ESI to advance research in mathematics and physics through fruitful interaction between scientists from these disciplines. [more]
News
Erwin Schrödinger Lecture by Martina Krämer (U of Mainz), May 7, CANCELLEDPublished on April 30, 2024
The ESI Medal 2024 goes to Piotr T. ChruścielPublished on April 28, 2024
Thematic Programmes at the ESI in 2025Published on April 26, 2024
Workshops at the ESI in 2024Published on Jan. 30, 2024
Panel discussion in AI in Academia on Tuesday, November 28 @ 16:30Published on Nov. 21, 2023
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If you are interested in applying for an ESI activity, please check out the links below:
Current and Upcoming Activities
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Nonlinear Waves and Relativity
April 29, 2024 — June 21, 2024
Thematic Programme
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Eduard Schesler (FernUniversität Hagen): Grothendieck pairs and Grigorchuk’s group
May 1, 2024 — June 30, 2024
Junior Research Fellow
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Mariem Magdy Ali Mohamed (U of London): The asymptotic structure of spacetimes
May 1, 2024 — June 30, 2024
Junior Research Fellow
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Victoria Sánchez Muñoz (U of Galway): The Bell- like inequalities for interference into quantum games
May 1, 2024 — June 30, 2024
Junior Research Fellow
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Research in Teams: Dynamical, geometric and analytic properties of random groups
May 23, 2024 — June 19, 2024
Research in Teams
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One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna
June 3, 2024 — June 7, 2024
Workshop
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Kaushlendra Kumar (Queen Mary U of London): IKKT model & Gravity
June 7, 2024 — June 25, 2024
Junior Research Fellow
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Individual Visiting Scientists 2024
June 9, 2024 — July 28, 2024
Individual Scientists
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IMO Training 2024
June 19, 2024 — June 21, 2024
Graduate School
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Determinacy, Inner Models and Forcing Axioms
June 24, 2024 — June 28, 2024
Workshop
Upcoming Talks
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Jun 03. 2024
- Progressive Decoupling of Dynamics in Convex Optimal Control Terry Ralph Rockafellar (U of Washington, Seattle) Jun 03. 2024, 09:30 - 10:00 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- Constraint qualification and the existence of multipliers for nonconvex infinite-constrained optimization problems in Banach spaces Ewa Bednarczuk (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw) Jun 03. 2024, 10:00 - 10:30 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- Heaviside composite optimization and complementarity constraints by a progressive integer programming method Jong-Shi Pang (U of Southern California, Los Angeles) Jun 03. 2024, 11:00 - 11:30 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- The Long-Run Distribution of Stochastic Gradient Descent: A Large Deviations Analysis Panayotis Mertikopoulos (CNRS, Grenoble) Jun 03. 2024, 11:30 - 12:00 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- Error bounds for mean-payoff Markov decision processes Roberto Cominetti (U Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago de Chile) Jun 03. 2024, 14:00 - 14:30 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- CCCP is Frank-Wolfe in disguise Alp Yurtsever (Umeå U) Jun 03. 2024, 14:30 - 15:00 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- Computer-aided Lyapunov analyses & counter-examples to the convergence of first-order optimization algorithms Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris) Jun 03. 2024, 15:30 - 16:00 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- How to Optimize a Schrödinger Bridge? Ya-Ping Hsieh (ETH Zurich) Jun 03. 2024, 16:00 - 16:30 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
- High probability and risk-averse guarantees for stochastic saddle point problems Mert Gürbüzbalaban (Rutgers U) Jun 03. 2024, 16:30 - 17:00 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).
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Jun 04. 2024
- Proximal Gradient Methods for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Minimax: A Unified Convergence Analysis Marc Teboulle (Tel Aviv U) Jun 04. 2024, 09:00 - 09:30 Part of One World Optimization Seminar in Vienna (Workshop).